Israeli blockade on fuel shuts down 6 more Gaza health centres

Six more medical facilities in Gaza have suspended operations, including the Public Service Hospital and the Central Oxygen Station.

In a statement on Telegram, the Health Ministry said the closure of the health centres was a result of Israel’s “insistence” on preventing the World Health Organization from delivering fuel to hospitals in Gaza.

“The rest of the hospitals will stop within only 48 hours. The occupation targets what remains of the health system by insisting on stopping and preventing the supply of fuel and medical supplies to hospitals,” the ministry said.

Gaza death toll rises to 63 since dawn

Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 63 people, including 26 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 59,106 Palestinians and wounded 142,511 others since Israel began its war on Gaza in October 2023, according to the Health Ministry.

More than half of the dead are women and children, it added.

Desperate Palestinians rush aid trucks in northern Gaza

At least 30 World Food Programme trucks brought in aid through the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza as desperate Palestinians converged on the convoy.

After people surrounded the trucks and took the supplies northwest of Gaza City, the convoy was unable to reach aid distribution centres.

Hospital sources told Al Jazeera at least 26 people were killed and 120 wounded, including children, after Israeli army attacks on aid seekers since dawn in the north.

21 children dead from malnutrition and starvation in past 3 days

Over the past three days, 21 children have died from malnutrition and starvation in the Strip, according to the head of Gaza’s largest hospital.

Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of al-Shifa Hospital, told reporters new cases of malnutrition and starvation are arriving at Gaza’s remaining functioning hospitals “every moment”.

“We are heading towards alarming numbers of deaths due to the starvation inflicted on the people of Gaza,” he said.  

UN secretary-general calls starvation in Gaza a "horror show." Here's what to know today


_{Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis, in Gaza City, today}

As the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to spiral, the United Nations’ human rights office had a clear message: “Palestinians in Gaza are starving to death,” a statement read today.

In the past 24 hours, 15 people including four children, died of starvation across the territory according to the enclave’s health ministry.

Separately, at least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to access food aid in Gaza, the UN human rights office added in its statement.

Here’s what to know:

Starvation “knocking on every door” in Gaza “horror show,” UN chief says


_{The mother of Yahya Fadi al-Najjar, an infant who died due to malnourishment, mourns as she holds his body during the funeral at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Sunday}

Starvation is “knocking on every door” in Gaza, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said, calling the situation a “horror show.”

“Around the world, we see an utter disregard for, if not (an) outright violation of, international law,” Guterres told the United Nations Security Council.

“We need look no further than the horror show in Gaza. In the level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times. Malnourishment is soaring. Starvation is knocking on every door. Now we are seeing the last gasp of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles,” he said.

The UN’s humanitarian system is being “denied the conditions to function” in Gaza, including the space to deliver aid and the safety to help people in need, Guterres said.

The Israeli military’s new operation in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza has meant that “devastation is being layered upon devastation.”

Guterres also said that he is “appalled” by the striking of UN premises inside Gaza, including the facilities of the United Nations Office for Project Services and warehouses and residences belonging to the World Health Organization.

“These premises are inviolable and must be protected under international humanitarian law without exception,” he said.

As Israel weaponises starvation, scant chance of change without US pressure

We’ve spoken to Mark Lattimer, executive director of Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, a group monitoring violations of international humanitarian law, about the deepening starvation crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Speaking from London, Lattimer said the situation has become “so extreme that anyone, any rational observer, seeing those pictures of emaciated, dying children, seeing the terrifying videos of Israeli soldiers firing onto crowds waiting for food, is going to conclude that Israel is starving the population of Gaza”.

Amid the extreme food shortages, said Lattimer, “more and more genocide scholars around the world certainly are characterising what’s happening in Gaza as genocide”.

Lattimer noted that apart from the question of genocide, international humanitarian law prohibits the starvation of civilians as a method of war – the basis of the charges brought against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Israel denies the charges.

Between starvation and forced displacement, said Lattimer, Israel is on very shaky legal grounds. “We are seeing the whole breadth of international legal opinion, a near consensus on the complete illegality of what Israel is currently doing in Gaza.”

But even as global legal opinion reaches consensus, added Lattimer, the US remains the only viable player for pressuring it to pull back. “The US refuses to put the requisite pressure on Israel to stop it from changing its course. That means, Israel continues to act – effectively, knowing there is no practical limits on its conduct. The response is catastrophe.”

Israeli FM welcomes US withdrawal from UNESCO

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar commended the US for withdrawing from the UN’s education and culture agency (UNESCO), known for protecting and establishing world heritage sites.

He said the move protected Israel’s right to fair treatment by UN systems, “a right which has often been trampled due to politicisation in this arena. Singling out Israel and politicisation by member states must end, in this and all professional UN agencies”, Saar wrote on X.

“Israel thanks the US for its moral support and leadership, especially in the multilateral arena which is plagued with anti-Israel discrimination,” he said, adding a call to reform the international body.

US State Department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, announced earlier today that Washington was withdrawing from UNESCO due to it no longer being in the country’s “national interest”.

“UNESCO’s decision to admit the ‘State of Palestine’ as a member state is highly problematic, contrary to US policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organisation,” Bruce added.

We welcome the US administration's decision to withdraw from UNESCO.
This is a necessary step, designed to promote justice and Israel's right for fair treatment in the UN system, a right which has often been trampled due to politicization in this
arena.

Singling out Israel and…

— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) July 22, 2025

Israeli minister outlines plans for settlements in Gaza: Report

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he has discussed the annexation and establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip with the country’s military chief of staff.

Speaking at a far-right conference in the Knesset titled “The Riviera in Gaza – From Vision to Reality”, Smotrich said: “I truly believe that there is a tremendous opportunity here. We can start in the north and establish three settlements there; the discussions are already underway.”

According to Israeli media, Smotrich also said that Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir expressed support for what he called a “security annexation” of the territory – which remains under intense Israeli bombardment.

Limor Son Har Melech, another member of the Israeli parliament, said: “The return of settlements to Gaza is not a dream but a true Zionist goal, and we already have plans, drawings, and families ready to build.”

Israeli settlements in Gaza are considered illegal under international law, with many human rights lawyers viewing their establishment as a tool of ethnic cleansing the territory of Palestinians.

UN chief says situation in Gaza is ‘without parallel’

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council Gaza is a “horror show with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times”.

“Malnourishment is soaring. Starvation is knocking on every door. And now we are seeing the last gasp of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles,” Guterres said.

“That system is being denied the conditions to function. Denied the space to deliver. Denied the safety to save lives,” the UN chief urged.

Guterres added between the Israeli military’s latest operation in Deir el-Balah and the forced displacement orders issued, devastation is being “layered upon devastation”.


_{A displaced Palestinian walks in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Deir el-Balah, central Gaza}

‘There is nothing left’: Key aid group runs out of supplies for Gaza

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says its aid stocks are completely depleted in Gaza, with some of its staff now starving. NRC says, for the last 145 days, it has not been able to get its hundreds of truckloads containing tents, water, sanitation, food and education materials into Gaza.

“Our last tent, our last food parcel, our last relief items have been distributed. There is nothing left,” Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the council, told the Reuters news agency.

“Hundreds of truckloads have been sitting in warehouses or in Egypt or elsewhere, and costing our Western European donors a lot of money, but they are blocked from coming in … That’s why we are so angry because our job is to help,” Egeland said.

“Israel is not yielding. They just want to paralyse our work.”

The NRC said its supplies of safe drinking water, which have reached 100,000 people in central and northern parts of Gaza in recent weeks, are also running out as fuel availability to run desalination plants reaches its limit.

Not Just Israel: The Arabs and Europe are Complicit in Starving Gaza

Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, says that Gaza is being starved by design. This is not a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate extermination, carried out through siege, blockade and bombardment. She describes it as the world’s first televised extermination, a concentration camp under constant aerial assault.

She says Israel bombs bakeries, flattens farms, shells aid convoys and blocks food. Hunger is being used as a weapon to kill not only bodies but the will to live and resist. Thousands of children are malnourished, families are starving, and even journalists are hungry.

This is not war, Ghannoushi adds, but annihilation, choreographed and prolonged. Israel carries it out, the US funds it, and Europe enables it with silence and trade. Arab regimes, particularly Egypt and Jordan, act as jailers and enforcers, blocking aid and crushing solidarity.

Diplomacy has failed, she says, turning food into a bargaining chip. Humanitarian access is not a favour but a legal obligation. The world did not simply fail Gaza; it abandoned it.

Gaza is a mirror, Ghannoushi concludes, and in its reflection we see our unvarnished shame.

28 Nations Tried to Save Face – Now They’re Losing It Over Gaza

Weasel words and strongly worded letters in the face of mass starvation in Gaza won't cut it. 28 world leaders thought it would.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme, over one million Palestinian children are now acutely malnourished, many on the brink of death. Families are reduced to grinding animal feed into flour, boiling weeds for soup, eating leaves from trees and drinking contaminated water as Israel renders water desalination plants inoperable.

Aid distribution points—lifelines for hundreds of thousands—are repeatedly struck by Israeli airstrikes, leaving bloodied sacks of flour scattered around. This is not a humanitarian accident; it is a deliberate military strategy. It is, in the words of South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a policy designed to inflict “conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of a group in whole or in part.”

And yet the best the so-called champions of human rights in the West could muster, by way of a response to this, was a strongly worded letter for which the mainstream media have offered gushing praise. Yesterday, twenty-eight nations—including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and several other European states—issued a joint statement condemning what it euphemistically called “inhumane killings” at food distribution points and demanding Israel stop its drip-feeding of aid and just let aid in properly. Well I’m sure Israel were shaking in their boots over it.

For all the diplomatic choreography, this letter was hollow from the moment it was signed. Within hours, the United Kingdom under Keir Starmer launched yet another RAF Akrotiri spy flight over Gaza, providing intelligence allegedly to find hostages that most Israeli politicians seemingly no longer care about, no longer prioritise and rarely even mention any more, intelligence that is almost certainly used by Israel to refine its targeting.

CNN can't ignore / white wash the situation any longer either

After months of mostly ignoring the genocide or just repeating Israeli talking points, live page is back and now this as well

Cindy McCain tells CNN Israeli troops fired on crowds approaching Gaza aid convoy

Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, speaks to CNN’s Becky Anderson following another deadly incident in Gaza, where dozens of Palestinians were reportedly killed as WFP attempted to distribute food aid. McCain describes the moment Israeli fire struck during the convoy’s passage and calls for immediate, sustained humanitarian access, and a ceasefire.

I made an ai generated image of an israeli soldier arresting a palestenian family, would you like to see it?

What do you need AI for when the real thing is readily available.

Just a few examples:

7 years ago

Israeli soldiers arrest 13-year-old Palestinian boy for no reason



According to a joint report issued by the Prisoners Club of Palestine, the Mayzan Center for Human Rights, and Addameer, 125 Palestinian minors were arrested by occupation authorities during the month of October.

2018

https://www.btselem.org/video/20181029_military_violently_harasses_hebron_family_in_area_h1

3 years ago

An Israeli soldier appears to arrest two frightened Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem

Caging Childhood: Palestinian Children in Israel's Military Detention System

More recent

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian father in front of family on live stream

A Palestinian man Iyad Banat, was arrested and severely beaten by Israeli forces in front of his family in occupied Hebron while he was on live streaming.
Banat's children can be heard crying and begging the soldiers to stop beating their father, but the soldier yells at them to keep quiet.

https://time.com/6548068/palestinian-children-israeli-prison-arrested/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/politics/family-palestinian-american-detained-israeli-forces-alleges-mistreatment

Now multiply all that to on avg 27 arbitrary arrests a day since October 2023.

Israel has detained 17,000 Palestinians since October 2023 in West Bank
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2600846/middle-east

Teenager detained by Israeli forces near Salfit, occupied West Bank

Israeli forces detained a teenager from Qarawat, Bani Hassan, west of the Salfit governorate, in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported.

According to local sources, soldiers detained Ahmed Munim Asi, 14, while he was in a commercial shop in the town. Asi was taken by the forces and detained at the town’s entrance.

One person assaulted and arrested at checkpoint near occupied Jerusalem

Israeli forces have detained a young man after beating him at the Hizma military checkpoint northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources told the Wafa news agency that Israeli soldiers stopped a car carrying the young man at the checkpoint, forced him to get out and beat him with fists and batons.

The soldiers went on to handcuff the young man and transfer him via a military vehicle to an unknown destination. The checkpoint was closed temporarily, and Palestinians were prevented from passing or documenting the arrest.

Israel carries out drone strike in Tebnine, southern Lebanon

An Israeli drone has carried out a strike on the town of Tebnine in southern Lebanon, our correspondent on the ground reports.

According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), the drone targeted a car near the Tebnine Governmental Hospital.

July deadliest month in Gaza in more than a year: Aid organisation

In Gaza, one person has been killed by Israeli forces every 12 minutes this month, according to data compiled by Islamic Relief.

With an average of 119 Palestinians killed daily, July has become the deadliest month since January 2024.

“The rate of killing is accelerating every day that world leaders fail to act,” Waseem Ahmad, chief executive of Islamic Relief Worldwide, said in a statement. “We are witnessing people massacred just for trying to get food, water or medicine. We’re seeing babies and young children starve to death because Israel is blocking humanitarian aid.”

_{Palestinians carry a wounded man on a bicycle after Israeli forces attack a crowd gathered to receive aid in Zakim}

Intimidation and fear: Israeli attacks continue across the Gaza Strip

There have been more deaths reported from the northern part of Gaza near the distribution centre at Zikim crossing.

As many as 30 trucks were scheduled to enter, but only five were allowed in by the Israeli military. Thousands of people gathered there, and the Israeli military opened fire on them.

Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes continue to target residential clusters in the eastern part of Gaza City, particularly the Zeitoun neighbourhood, where drone strikes targeted a group of people.

The Israeli military earlier announced it concluded its military assault in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. But many Palestinians are unable to go back to their homes as they are in the firing line of heavy artillery.

Quadcopters and surveillance drones also hover over the area, creating an atmosphere of intimidation and fear, preventing people forced into displacement from returning to their homes, which have largely been destroyed or severely damaged.

Fifteen people killed in Israeli attack on home near Gaza City

An Israeli attack on a building housing displaced Palestinians northwest of Gaza City has killed 15 people, including six children, a source at al-Shifa Hospital says.

Islamic Jihad says it loses contact with Israeli captive in Gaza after attack

A spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad says its leaders have lost contact since Monday with members holding Israeli captive Rom Braslavski in Gaza.

The spokesperson said on Telegram the group did not know the fate of the captive or his captors after Israeli forces besieged an area in Gaza where Braslavski was believed to be held.